[comp.text.tex] "gentle" TeX introduction

was@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (02/07/91)

I don't know about "A Gentle Intro. to TeX", but there is a relatively
new book out called "TeX for the Impatient" that I would recommend highly
as an intro/reference alternate to The Knuth "TeXbook".  The author is
Paul W. Abrahams.  It is out in paperback (Addison-Wesley).

   Jennifer Hodgdon
   hodgdon@helios.tn.cornell.edu      OR @crnlassp.bitnet

xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) (02/08/91)

* as an intro/reference alternate to The Knuth "TeXbook".  The author is
* Paul W. Abrahams.  It is out in paperback (Addison-Wesley).

The cover page says that 

Paul W. Abrahams
     with
  Karl Berry
  Kathryn A. Hargreaves

But I don't see who does what. It seems to me that Karl Berry
contribute a lot to eplain but I don't the other two people's
contribution.
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verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark Verber) (02/08/91)

I picked up a copy of Gentle TeX awhile ago.  I don't recall where I
got it.  I have it up for anonymous ftp on pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
with the path tex/gentle-tex.tex -- this is the original which has a
local guide to IBM mainframes.  I have a version that I will put up in
the next few weeks that has a more appropriate into from Unix sites.

--mark